) model that accounts for flows and (quality-adjusted) stocks of public infrastructure, private investment, as well as changes … public infrastructure has both "flow" and "stock" effects on private investment in Egypt, but only a "stock" effect in Jordan … policy reforms aimed at limiting investment to infrastructure capital that crowds in the private sector and corrects for …

infrastructure and services; it is undertaken in the context of public administrative reforms and decentralization by analyzing …

section provides a background on the trends in the volume and efficiency levels of public investment in Vietnam, which are … against its ambition for development. Section 3 analyzes the financial and opportunity costs and investment inefficiencies due …

The survey on Lao private sector and investment climate covered 303 firms in six sectors and seven provinces (Vientiane … sectors, which traditionally have larger firms and more foreign investment, most firms in the sample were domestic small and … medium enterprises (SMEs). The survey provided three types of information useful for the Investment Climate Assessment …

-based growth and most importantly, poverty reduction. It does this by combining an assessment of the investment climate faced by …

The objective of this report is to explore firm competitiveness, the investment climate, and growth in Malaysia. This … report is structured as follows. The first two chapters provide an assessment of the investment climate. The last two … on the survey data as well as on cross-country comparisons. Chapter 1 reports on the investment climate and firm …

Sierra Leone's devastating 11-year civil war destroyed much of its infrastructure, and left its economy in tatters. In … 2004, two years after the end of the war, Sierra Leone asked the investment climate (IC) advisory services of the World … Bank Group to help create a better business and investment climate that will lay a foundation for the country's future …